City hall planning to privatize 280-hectare development site
City Hall plans to privatize a 280-hectare plot of public land set aside for a $3 billion development by the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district, officials said Thursday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-planning-to-privatize-280-hectare-development-site-109413/
Still lessons to learn for Cambodians watching U.S. election campaign
The ongoing presidential election campaign in the United States may be one of the more unseemly the country has seen, but observers and politicians in Cambodia say their country still has a lot to learn from the American democratic process. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/still-lessons-to-learn-for-cambodians-watching-us-election-campaign/3268463.html
Activists request to march on ACU HQ
Land rights activists from 10 communities in the capital yesterday submitted a request to City Hall requesting permission to march to the Anti-Corruption Unit’s headquarters and deliver a petition in support of human rights activists jailed this week. ...
Chhay Channyda and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-request-march-acu-hq
Two at Ratanakkiri hospital axed for fund mismanagement
Two Ratanakkiri Referral Hospital officials have been ousted from their posts following an audit that found that more than $13,000 from the hospital’s travel allowance account was mismanaged, causing the hospital to run out of money to pay staff. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-ratanakkiri-hospital-axed-fund-mismanagement
Maternal, child health outpacing neighbours
Cambodia is among 10 countries that achieved accelerated progress in maternal and child health – ahead of comparable countries – by meeting goals to reduce mortality among those population groups, according to a recent cross-country analysis by the WHO. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maternal-child-health-outpacing-neighbours
NGO files complaint against NEC
An NGO has filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit against senior National Election Committee members for “colluding to commit corruption inside an independent institution”, relating to a transfer of the body’s employees from independent contractors to government officials. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-files-complaint-against-nec
Bridge broken by illegal load
Kampot’s Ta Reach bridge was severely damaged by a truck overloaded with illegal luxury timber over the weekend, prompting a manhunt for the truck’s driver, who was apparently on his way to Vietnam at the time of the accident. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26038/bridge-broken-by-illegal-load/
Junket investor’s profit falls but sticking to its Cambodia bets
Jimei International Entertainment Group, a Hong Kong-listed casino junket investor that promotes at least seven gaming tables in NagaWorld casino in Phnom Penh, reported a steep decline in profit during the first half of 2016 despite increased turnover. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/junket-investors-profit-falls-sticking-its-cambodia-bets
Man faces up to two years for threatening Sok Touch’s life
A 27-year-old migrant worker who used his Facebook page to threaten to “shoot the head of Sok Touch,” a prominent scholar recently tasked with researching the Vietnamese border, was provisionally charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/man-faces-up-to-two-years-for-threatening-sok-touchs-life-93588/
With 1M ‘likes,’ PM says Facebook page is his
After more than two years of denials from Prime Minister Hun Sen that a Facebook fan page bearing his name really belongs to him, the premier’s cabinet has acknowledged that it does—shortly after the page garnered its one-millionth “like.” ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-1m-likes-pm-says-facebook-page-is-his-95006/
Cambodian Premier wants to build closer ties with foreign diplomats
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen is willing to build closer relations between the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC)’s senior officials and foreign diplomats accredited to the country, according to the State News Angcy-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-premier-wants-to-build-closer-ties-with-foreign-diplomats-9047
Returnee maid takes own life
A Tbong Khmum woman, whose family said she had been plagued by major personality changes and signs of mental illness since returning from working as a maid in Malaysia, hanged herself with a hammock cord in her house Sunday afternoon. ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/returnee-maid-takes-own-life
World leaders head to Paris for climate deal
Heads of state from nearly 80 countries are heading to Paris (November 30-December 11) to craft a global climate change agreement. The new accord will replace the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change that expired in 2012. ...
Rosanne Skirble
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/world-leaders-head-to-paris-for-climate-deal/3067067.html
Cambodia campaigns against plastic
Cambodia launched a campaign, late last week, to reduce the use of plastic bags and plastic waste that is littering streets in an effort to make the country more environmentally friendly for both local residents and visitors. ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2015/12/cambodia-campaigns-against-plastic/comment-page-1/
Senate passes two laws; opposition boycotts
Forty-six senators from the ruling CPP on Monday unanimously approved the 2016 national budget and the telecommunications law in the absence of 10 boycotting senators from the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), according to a press release. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/senate-passes-two-laws-opposition-boycotts-102349/
Foreign minister defends government to US ambassador
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong on Monday once again defended recent legal actions and political moves against the opposition CNRP, and admitted to personally pushing for the enforcement of a years-old defamation and incitement sentence against CNRP President Sam Rainsy. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/foreign-minister-defends-government-to-us-ambassador-102322/
Cambodia police break up 8,000 strong garment protest
Water cannons have been used to bring the angry protest by garment workers to an end. Thousands of people went on strike after they had been promised an 18 euro pay rise and only received half. ...
DW News Staff
http://www.dw.com/en/cambodia-police-break-up-8000-strong-garment-protest/a-18931690
Hun Many says goal is to be prime minister
Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen and a CPP lawmaker, revealed during a radio show on Wednesday his ambition to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the future prime minister. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-many-says-goal-is-to-be-prime-minister-104231/
Activist appeals to Hun Sen for visa to attend his trial
Environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson made a direct appeal to Prime Minister Hun Sen via Facebook on Wednesday for help securing a visa to return to Cambodia to attend his pending trial for aiding a trio of fellow activists. ...
Zsombor Peter and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activist-appeals-to-hun-sen-for-visa-to-attend-his-trial-108951/
Women’s day bike ride blocked by police, security guards
More than 200 activists attempting to cycle from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh to mark International Women’s Day were penned in by authorities Tuesday morning after pedaling less than 100 meters. ...